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THE FORUM DAILY

The U.S. and Canada have struck an agreement that soon would permit each
country to turn away asylum seekers who cross the U.S.-Canada border
without authorization, Hamed Aleaziz and Erin B. Logan report in the Los
Angeles Times
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The new policy would apply to people who are not citizens of either
country and who are caught within 14 days of crossing. It would expand
the nations' 2004 "Safe Third Country Agreement" by requiring all
migrants - not just those arriving via ports of entry - to have
sought asylum in the country they've passed through. 

In addition, Canada is expected to make 15,000 slots available for
Western Hemisphere migrants to apply and enter the country legally,
Aleaziz and Logan report. As we noted earlier this week, the number of
migrants crossing the U.S.-Canada border in each direction has been
increasing. 

Elsewhere in news related to migration:    

* A House subcommittee addressed rising immigration at sea in a hearing
yesterday afternoon. (Quinn Owen, ABC News
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* Hotels in New York City are now home to thousands of migrants. (Karen
Zraick, The New York Times
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* Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney writes compellingly of his city's
welcome of migrants. (Newsweek
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Welcome to Friday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon, the
Forum's strategic communications VP, and today's great Forum Daily
team includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez, Clara Villatoro and Katie Lutz.
If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to
me at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

There will be no Forum Daily on Monday, but we'll be back Tuesday. 

**RELIGIOUS FREEDOM** - A judge has ruled that the government violated
a New York pastor's First Amendment rights when it interfered with her
ability to minister to migrants in Mexico, reports Alex Riggins of The
San Diego Union-Tribune
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The judge ruled that DHS also violated the Rev. Kaji Douša's
religious-freedom rights under a 1993 law. 

**AROUND THE TABLE** - The Zahid family's food is as appealing as
their story is heart-wrenching. In the Boston Globe
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Francie Lin tells of the Zahids' terrifying departure from Afghanistan
as the country fell - and the food they hope to share with more people
in their new home of Northampton, Massachusetts. 

* In local welcome this past week: The nonprofit Global Impact
Initiative has distributed 80 laptops to help Afghan refugees adjust to
life in the U.S. (Angela Shen, Fox 7 Austin
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* For the Crosscut Reports
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podcast, Sara Bernard speaks with Thanh Tan, a child of Vietnamese
refugees who has been helping new Afghan arrivals to Washington state. 

* "We saw the need. And we said, 'You know what? We have to do something
about it,'" said Dr. Rabia Jafri, founder of Hampton Roads Refugee
Relief in Virginia. (Penny Kmitt, WTKR
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**'SPIRIT OF JUSTICE'** - A coalition of 130 religious
organizations sent a letter
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to President Biden asking him not to reinstate migrant family detention,
per Rafael Bernal of The Hill
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"We ... invite you to be inspired by the spirit of justice and mercy
that runs throughout our collective faiths and stories," they wrote.
"Policies should be guided from a place of compassion and concern for
those who are on the margins, including migrants and asylum seekers -
not from a place of fear and trepidation." 

**LOCAL FOCUS** - Many immigrant advocates are turning to state
legislatures to push for immigration-related bills on matters such as
driver's license access and in-state tuition, Suzanne Monyak reports
in Roll Cal
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Thanks for reading, 

Dan

 

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